Book Review
Every year I read The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy (BASFF) collection to see what’s going with (relatively) mainstream SFF. What I enjoy most about BASFF is the cycling guest editor. Every year the survey comes in at a fresh angle, the beam of our attention guided by
Book Review
Approaching Samuel Delany’s Conan/Semiotics Slash Fiction Have you ever wished Conan the Barbarian were the kind of guy to read critical theory? No? Too bad, because today we’re discussing the first volume of Samuel Delany’s Nevèrÿon stories. Nevèrÿon is a sword-and-sorcery-and-semiotics series heroically compiled by Wesleyan
Farscape
Farscape Episodes 2x01 & 2x02 Oh my god, who is that at the door? It’s my special friend Farscape, back from the war! Please make her feel at home. She’s going to be here a while. Mind the Baby In the break since last season, three or four
Cinema
Today was supposed to be the premiere of Season Two of my XOXO, Puppet Girl Farscape reviews, but unfortunately my evil hand took the wheel instead. Look for Puppet Girl to return this Thursday. Fuck you to fuck me, Markiplier On Sunday my friend persuaded me to see Markiplier’s
Cinema
Mwaaah the cinema! It gets knocked down, but it gets up again. They’re never going to keep it down, though not for lack of trying. Did I see a lot of good movies this year? Yes. Were many of them new release American movies? No. Biggest Ws 2025 had
Science Fiction
Some people understand things best when it’s presented to them as cool fact. Other people prefer pondering the world through the wiggly lens of fiction. Still others are bored right now and want to read several articles consecutively. For all three of you I have two stories, one location,
Video Games
It has been another hideous year for the game industry, and tech in general. And the world. It’s difficult to muster much enthusiasm for a shambling zombie industry, its priority product the sludge dribbling from its rotting, slackened lips. Did I Play Any Games This Year? I spent too
Television
Back in the day, I believed in television as a breakthrough medium. During my youth, it shed its goo-goo ga-ga machine reputation to become the unifying fascination of the very online cultural critics of my formative years. I wrote my undergraduate thesis about television. One could say it was something
Book Review
2025 was a great reading year for me. I read over sixty books (though that number is inflated by ten or more comic book trade paperback collections, which take about two hours to read end-to-end). A great deal of them were good, more than I can list here coherently. I
Farscape
What Was Farscape Season One? It was 22 episodes of science fiction television, each about 48 minutes long. It was not that remarkable. If Farscape had been cancelled at the end of season one, we would have no cause to discourse here, because Farscape would be another Earth-2 or Space:
Farscape
Farscape 1x21 & 22 Bone to Be Wild We have a light episode now. Moya and her baby hide together in an asteroid field, trying to avoid detection by Crais’ Command Carrier. Stark’s fucked off somewhere (though he’ll be back) so we’ve returned to Moya crew equilibrium.
Farscape
Farscape 1x19 & 1x20 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!! It’s like Christmas, but better: Scorpius is finally here. Nerve Aeryn is training hardcore, and John points out that maybe she shouldn’t be training so hard with a recent abdominal wound. She aggros him, then she vomits blood. Then she collapses. John tries